SLIND embedded distribution released

February 25th, 2006

SLIND is the first complete debian-based embedded distribution which uses
the dpkg-cross compilation model. It has been created by a team at Siemens,
based in St Petersburg, and was announced at FOSDEM 2006, Brussels.

It has support for ARM, powerpc and i386 targets, using both glibc and
uclibc. Cross-toolchains (from i386) are provided for all 6 targets. There
is also a base set of about 30 packages, and an installer. Target currently
require ethernet for the installer to work.

SLIND is being actively developed as part of the Embedded Debian project,
and more info is here.